The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-19
Local and state Notes.

~ G.. Iglehart has accepted the position of
chairman of the Chicago Freight Bureau The
salary is Sc, 600 per annum.
In the week ending the 18th there were trans
ferred over ths Belt road Is, 620 ears, against
9.124 the corresponding week, 1856. Increase
this year, 4,496 cars
Will King, assistant ticket agent of the
Wabash at st. Louis. who has been spending a
a couple of weeks with friends in this city and
at Richmond, returns to duty to-day.
w. W. Borst, division superin tendent of the
Denver g. Rio Grande, has resigned. The re-
lations between him and General Superintendent
Kicker are said to be rather strained
G. S. Stebbins, recently general ticket agent
of the Union Pacific. WILL after Oct /, repre-
sent the Equitable Life Assurance Association
of New York as their general agent in Nebraska.
Since the first of the month the platform me n
at the Decline city freight depots b. ave handled
an average of 120 carloads of freight per day.
Their local business has never been as heavy
now
ors on the Lake Erie e. Western road, died yes
terday, after a short illness He was one of the
most popular and obliging conductors who ran
on the road.
W., last week closed contract for $500 tons
more of steel rails, to be delivered next month.
When these are in the track, 10000 tons OF new
steel rails will have been laid on the line the
present year.
Stuyvesent Fish, president. and several other
Eastern men who interested in the Illinois
Central road, are West looking matters over.
Whlie West 1t Is understood some action will be
taken looking to the Fastening of contemplated
improvements at the Chicago terminus.
Any decrease in earnings that either of the
Indianapolis roads now show should be charged
up to the effects of the interstate commerce
law. Both the G., l., St. L. & g. show decreased
earnings the second week in this month, while
In both cases a larger tonnage was carried
Henry Monett, general passenger agent of the
New York Central. is in the West prospecting,
and Saturday evening telegraphed II. r. Derinr
of the Pennsylvania lines, who is a warm ner-
sonal friend. TO spend the Sabbath with him Mt
Chicago, and he left on Saturday night for that
point
p p. Shelby, late traffic manager of the Union
Pacific, has already dropped into n good posi-
tion having been apponte general manager OF
the Montana Central road, with headquarters at
Helena. The road will be completed to Helena
in about ten days, and to Butte City next
spring.
James McCrea, general manager Of the Penn
Iylvania lines west OF Pittsburg, is in his pri-
rate so much travelling over the roads under
his mana cement that he calls his car his home,
and when he goes to Pittsburg to tarry for
day or two at his headquarters he calls it visit
Ing bis family.
Rates some classes of freight the roads
In the Middle and Western States Committee
somewhat shaky and Commissioner blanchard
has asked the freight and lumber committees to
convene at his Office tomorrow for the purpose
Of bringing about better understanding and
restoration of rates
The Decline officials who were in the city
Saturday spent few minutes in looking over
the improvements making in and about the
Union Depot. They expressed themselves as
surprised and disappointed at the slow progress
making in the erection of the new station. The
more 50 when It was so apparent that the better